章節 183: 22. Life is A Rollercoaster.
I had built up a hell of a reputation in fight clubs and was making fantastic money. And as my wolf wanted, I was searching castle for us. I looked online, and then I saw an ad, and I showed it to Adam.
" Look, I'm going to buy that. Castle. I know the pack doesn't have any castles, but they will soon."
Adam looked at the ad and smiled. " That's right. Buy a castle, get it ready. I will come when I get this done, and Mimi, keep the castle in your name for now. I don't want Bran to find out yet. He might try to claim the castle for himself. Even if the castle is in my name, you saw how he took over the Pennsylvania mansion."
I nodded. This would be a wonderful trip. First, a flight to Italy, then buying a car and driving to the castle. Then, decorate it. I wonder if there are many secret passageways.
Adam said, " Be careful, no hidden passages, keep your wits on. Here goes what goes. I have to make this a wild wolf's attack good enough that Damon may demand compensation from Bran. I won't tell you any more about my method than that, but I can tell you it won't be a quick and painless end."
I was silent for a moment and said, when I probably understood what he was going to say, "Nick. You are going to have Nick the hybrid bite Brianna, and since Bran has taken this half-wolf into his pack, then ..."
Adam nodded. He looked at me. There was again this predator looking at me, knowing my own dark side. It was just damn hard place for me to accept that side of me but in Adam it looked quite hot actually, even I knew that last thing Damon would want to do was fuck.
He said, " Nick will be in his wolf form. He is fast and powerful and deadly to Brianna, And Damon will have to be by her side till the end. Watch that bitch suffer. The only cure would be Nick's blood, and he won't have it. The elders have conveniently gone to rest, meaning they're not awake. They sort of go into hibernation every winter, a bit like hibernation, and Brianna can't get any help. Damon takes care of that."
I nodded and said, " Well, is Nick going to have any problems with it, then?"
Adam said, "Nick loves doing this; he's the one who suggested it to me. It seems he has long lasting hatred for this one and he had been trying to find some reason to do this. He had many motives. I would have just shot Brianna, but Brianna is not in any man's good graces. I'll come to Italy when it's all over. Things are quite clear."
I smiled and kissed Adam. He returned the kiss, but he was already fully oriented for this job, he was not in mood so to speak.
He said to me, "Believe me, you are not monster. Honey, I feel you so clearly through our bond and I know it is hard for you accept your darker side, go , enjoy, have fun and let's see what we do when i get there."
I then went to put my bags in order and order express products for the rest of the day. I found a flight. Our pack's plane would be free for tomorrow, so tomorrow I would be on the move, heading to Italy. It was time to have fun, put my castle in order and forget violence, fighting for a while. Time to be Mimi the interior decorator.
I had bought no houses there yet, although I had done gigs there on and off. We had bases there where I had lingered and stayed during the gigs. I had never been to any castle except the castle where our vampire wedding was held, so when I looked at the pictures of my castle, I had already bought it. I had not much idea what to look for but my own taste.
I was really excited. Mimosa was also very enthusiastic, and I got to choose most of my outfits that I would take with me. I was naughty, though, and bleached my hair back to blonde and shortened it quite a bit. We spent the rest of the day ordering, figuring out all the things we would put somewhere. Mimosa wanted to get out then and run up and down the stairs. Well, we agreed that somewhere in between. Adam did not ask anything about castle's security. I had used my network to make sure that no one was after me.
I was glad I could eat even though I had two caterers. Adam was in the kitchen, and so was Samuel. Samuel said he could come and fix up the medbay at some point. Or if he was busy, he could send Colin to have basics as well. I could do it myself in principle, but I said nothing about it yet as I tried to be a good girl and eat. I didn't bother packing food. I had already ordered supplies for the castle, and the plane would be fully equipped for me. It would be so perfect. My very own castle.
I was only in the house that day. I ordered an insane amount of stuff, knowing the castle was pretty empty. I packed my bags well in advance. I had packed most of it the day before. I had no timetable. The plane would be at the airport in an hour with the pilots, and I could leave whenever I wanted. Well, my trip to the airport took 45 minutes. I had breakfast, kissed Adam, and then left.
I went to my car. Three huge scarlet roses had been left in the driver's seat, and I smelled the faint scent of passionfruit as I bent down to take them. There was also a book on the bench titled, "Feeding the Mimi and its Challenges."
I glanced through it, and Damon had written a book about my nutrition. There were even recipes at the end. This was sharper scent of his passionfruit. That side that had been out in that damn shed.
I smiled and left to drive to the airport. I didn't understand Damon at first, and that's what made him so irresistible. He always or often had his own little catch sometimes, and I had never noticed it.
I didn't know when he'd written that guide, but now I had it to read on the flight. It wasn't a huge guide, but it would probably be spot on and give me lots of good ideas about what to do. I had ordered quite a lot of general food supplies for the castle already, so that I might make myself some crazy food while I was fixing up the castle.
Using right ingredients and my own pretty crazy ideas, this would be so much fun. My life was quite nice and it was getting better. I had perfect mate, I was on my way to my castle. I did not feel like time bomb ready to blow in any minute and I realized how much it had taken my energy to hold myself and my rage, my temper. Now as I had found one outlet, my mind was so increbile calm.
I drove to the airport, sang out loud on the way, and didn't care if a human looked at me while I was singing while waiting for the traffic lights to change. Mimosa was in my mind, with her snout buried in her paws. My singing embarrassed her. My wolf can be a bit too fussy at times.
I arrived at the airport in good time, was sitting in my car when I saw the plane landing. I was already thinking about the newest car that I would buy in Italy. I got out of my car, left it in the hangar for safekeeping, collected my bags, and walked towards the plane. This was start of something quite wonderful.
I got on the plane. It was a private plane for the pack, so there was no need to worry about the passengers. I was told I had flown on this plane before when I had silver madness, but I remembered nothing about that trip. Anyway, my last memories were of the ship and then only when I woke up properly. Apparently, nitrogen silver messes with your head badly.
I had been quite drugged all the time so it did also wiped my memory. You could keep me from remembering if I was drugged enough.
I was sitting in a luxurious seat. The pilot showed me the separate seat I had sat in when I had traveled with Charles. Oh, how I had let Charles' nerves down, I heard. I don't know why I got a strange feeling when I thought of Charles, but when the plane was in the air, I made coffee, ate sandwiches, and studied my nutrition.
It was very efficiently written. There was first chapters on proteins, carbohydrates, fats, vitamins and minerals. what I needed, how did my body processed them and what was best for me. Then it delved it into food ingredients. Each food ingredient was marked with stars according to its suitability, and the recommendation was that I should get at least 50 stars per meal - it had portion sizes, where I would get what number of stars. It was actually a very interesting project, actually, to look at how well I was eating and how I could improve my food.
There was also few chapters on different cooking methdos and how they affected the stars and for example, if I would fry steak of beef, fatty, and big where I would get normally 8 stars, fully welldone, it would give me only 5 stars, so there was difference. Oh how my pretender side loved to learn all of this stuff.
I had gone to the car dealer's website the day before and bought the car. It would wait for me at the airport. It would be a Lexus, a pink convertible brand new and just for me. Damon and Adam prefer SUVs. Men's safe, efficient SUVs that could fit everything, not me. I used SUVs for gigs; they had to be fantastic to drive and not as sturdy as the men's models, but now I was getting a pleasure car.
I wanted a strong, fast, great-looking car that was fucking great to drive and looked good, looked like me. I liked to drive, no I loved the drive and with right car, things would be so freaking perfect. I was still ordering online whatever I could find for my castle address once I'd already bought and paid for my castle.
Another dream I thought I would one day fulfill was to study to be a doctor. Now, in America, there was a special system for supernaturals because some creatures were ancient and experienced. Take men like Damon, over 1000 years old vampire who has seen it all and he is actually doctor. So it included six months of intensive training, after which there were six months of working on a continuous screen of what shows what you can do. After that six months, you were assessed what you would become, whether it was a paramedic, primary care nurse, specialist nurse, general practitioner, ward physician, or surgeon. Depending on the specialty, you could also become even a neurosurgeon, trauma surgeon, or heart surgeon.
There were separate qualifications for that, and really, according to Adam, the benefit of that was that you got a title. You get an accurate report of what you're good at and what you're not good at, so you can then take the next six months to see if you can get a new profession.
Adam had presented this whole thing to me as he had looked it up for himself too. Damon and Samuel and Colin had taught him basics ever since I got in his life and he had found his calling as well but he was so busy that he was not sure where he would have the time but I would have time to do this in some point and me being pretender, even better.
I'd done a hell of a lot of reading in medicine and I was already quite dexterous with my hands when I would occasionally sew fruit together for fun, surgeon, trauma surgeon, that, that was my goal one day I would be a trauma surgeon.
The irony here was my trauma against all medical procedures, but I would have no problem doing them for others, and maybe that would then help me tolerate everything even better in the future. It would give me chance to in medical setting, feel the instruments and stuff, give me a proffesion if I ever wanted to work.
I got to my destination in Italy. My Italian was not the best now, but I got my business done, and the car was ready in the hangar. Oh fuck, it was great to drive. I took my time and drove to my castle. The navigator helped, and I kept it in English.
I could see my castle some distance away. It was huge. It was made of stone; the courtyard was paved, not asphalted, and the car drove slowly along the driveway as I searched for a suitable parking space. I had to make sure that the delivery trucks could get close enough then.
As I drove closer, I noticed all the little details of it. There was a courtyard, there were marble benches, and a large fountain, now dirty and empty, but I could see it in my mind, already in good shape.
The lawn hadn't been maintained, and the shrubs needed work, but I saw a lovely project here. There were old fruit trees in the back. I knew that after looking at the pictures during the trip. There were also several outbuildings, and they had stuff I could go through. Who knows what treasures I could find there? The castle was 24 stories high.
It had towers, two of them, and I was already thinking of some special rooms for them, not necessarily a fuck room but a sitting room or a craft room. I knew there were even more rooms here than in the Pennsylvania mansion, so any room would work now.
I designed everything from greenhouses to growing labs to photography rooms, a video editing room, a craft room, and workshop rooms. And, of course, proper fucking rooms and plenty of them. You'd just have to look for suitable beds and challenging rooms with fresh places to fuck, although that wasn't Adam's thing now.
The courtyard had an old swing and marble benches; there was a pattern in the tiling, but the weeds had come through, and the pattern wasn't quite clear. Oh, I had a lot of work to do here. This must have looked great at one time and this will look great.
I went in after first getting the keys from the realtor. She told me you could find these castles all over the country when the families die, and the maintenance costs and the castle gets a bit dilapidated, so nobody wants it right away. She was a nice lady and drove away pretty quickly. Apparently, she had other things to do.
I put the key in the door and stepped into an enormous lobby with stairs going off in both directions, like in the movie "Gone with the Wind." The interiors were lovely. I wandered downstairs and also found arched marble staircases and gold-colored metal railings that rose upstairs.
Walked, I looked. The first time I saw the magnificent ceilings. They were not just boring white ceilings but had fine gold decorated tiles; the moldings were really magnificent, even the very floor moldings. The floors were hardwood floors shabby but would be gorgeous if refurbished.
I saw a stack of cardboard boxes next to one door. My orders had already arrived, and I knew that, fine, the orders would come through this door. This castle had several doors downstairs, so I knew I was going to be wandering around pretty damn efficiently if I didn't put some directional signs on myself first.
The kitchen was gorgeous. There was a walk-in fridge and freezer, the appliances were newly refurbished, and the white marble worktops brought a sparkle to the kitchen. It was a bit clinical, being white and steel colored, but colorful pots and pans that I could hang on racks hanging from the ceiling would bring a homely feel, and so would the curtains.
I hadn't even had time to properly plan any curtains for any windows yet, as this was such a bloody gorgeous place. I knew I'd take my time wandering through it first and admiring all the rooms.
I wandered around the castle for two days. Yes, I went to the kitchen for dinner, and I now had masking tape and a pencil to write in every room I could think of. I also wrote it on the floor plan.
There were secret passages, but I wouldn't go into that yet. Mimosa was good at thinking up rooms, too, and I then let Mimosa play around the castle for the third day. Then the wolf was pretty damn tired after I had scattered some meat here and there so that she had to look for it all the time. And different meat.
After the initial fussing and when more stuff had come in that I had something to do, I started to put the castle in order. I called Adam and told him about my castle and praised it as much as I could, listed the rooms I had already chosen, and sent him a floor plan, including what would be where and lots of pictures. Oh, I bombarded Adam with pictures of my castle.
Adam was amused, though he said he'd never lived in a castle or even really visited one, that he didn't know what to expect, though he said in a few of the pictures that they were pretty damn promising fuck rooms. One where he planned to really fuck me was the one I had planned for my craft room. He wanted me to put that swing in order, fucking outside was kind of our thing as we had been quite eager after the clubs and swing had been there, it had been dedicated very well. Fine I could fix us fucking swing. I had to just make sure that it would not break as we weren't going to make love on the beach but fuck and my alpha could dominate me and be extremly rough with me.
So I promised to put up a few bedrooms for him to choose from. And that swing as well. The castle had gorgeous old canopy beds with curtains. I had a few shipments of mattresses, and luckily, there was a lift so I could drag the mattresses upstairs.
I didn't even know where I was going with my decorating yet as I was trying to make comfortable rooms and lovely bedrooms.
There was also a great spa area, and I had a work crew there to fix it up. It was going to be absolutely perfect. And even though it was winter in Italy and southern Italy, where my castle was, it was certainly not cold.
The bathrooms in the rooms were luxurious, often there could be a shower room with marble. I ordered thick towels and lovely bathrobes. I also looked for the perfect toilet mats. They were nice to put in place when you opened the package. I couldn't even remember what I had always ordered, but it all sunk in, and it felt like nothing even showed that I had been decorating here for almost two weeks.
There were curtains in the kitchen, they were cherry with gold patterns, a huge pastel carpet in the foyer and I had very soft and gentle colours downstairs, Mimosa had decorated a few rooms and oh my gosh my wolf loved the strong colours and good contrast.
They say time flies when you're having fun, and I can say that's true. I didn't even think of Salvatore once. I was already so used to Adam that I was only thinking about our bedtime when I was decorating.
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